I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt. — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years, mutates, some parts are sharpened, others dropped, and there is often debate about what really happened. But even with these different sides of the same story, there is still agreement that this is the family story.… — A.M. Homes Copy Share
“You can’t collect everything,” Pat says, putting the dress in with the giveaways. “Life is not a hobby.” — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
“I love my foot. If I had to send a part of myself to represent myself in some other country, or in some other… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
The struggle is how to write optimistically when the world we're living in is not inherently optimistic. I love the idea of the family… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
“You are your own beginning. Every day, every hour, every minute, you start again. There is no point wishing you were someone else, you… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
Birthday parties make me nervous as hell. They're one of those things where you're forced to be happy. And even if you're totally depressed,… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
“A fat old man has disturbed my day, coming to tell me that he has sold my childhood to a museum in Cincinnati.” — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
“The subjects range from the pastoral (sniffing of the butt of a melon to tell if it's ripe. and almost romantically lush descriptions of lightening storms sweeping across fields on summer nights) to elaborations on the value of man's having a life of his own, apart from whatever life he has with his family, a private life that no one… — A.M. Homes Copy Share
I really don't watch enough TV to know about the impact. In my experience as a TV writer, I would say is the exact opposite - it's very constricted, all having to conform to a form. My sense of fiction writing is not to think about rules but to be driven by the characters and their stories. I often ask… — A.M. Homes Copy Share
I am very interested in loyalty, even if the person to whom one is loyal is flawed, criminal, or otherwise in the wrong. — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
The weird thing about having your birthday on a school day is that by the time you get to be ten, or eleven for sure, no one at school knows it's your birthday anymore. It's not like when you're little and your mom brings cupcakes for the whole class. But even though no one knows, you walk around like it's… — A.M. Homes Copy Share
